Disclaimer: I don't own Harvest Moon!! This is probably extremely OOC sorry!

Summary: Akari recently movie to live with her father in Castanet. There she becomes best friends with two guys, Luke and Owen. As her friends find out what young love is, Akari cna't help but wonder if, all this time, it was one of her friends who she was inlove with.

Chapter 1

It was now that I began to realize that everything my mother had every told me was a lie. It was then that I wondered if everything else she told me was a lie as well. This really had me thinking. All my life my mother had told me that my father was an unloving drunk who cared more about the bottle in his hand than his own family. Now I was finally starting to see the truth, though. It had been almost two seasons since I moved to the island of Castanet to live with my father. And now living with him, I found out the truth of why he left. She had told him to leave, to get the hell out and never come back. So much for 'he left on his own free will and never looked back.' When he'd first told me his side of the story - the truth - I'd been a bit skeptical. Then it ocurred to me, if my mother was the good one here, then why would she leave her only child to live with her father - a complete stranger - so she could go off and marry a model? Hypocrite.

Still, even knowing the truth about everything, I still hated it here. The people were nice; they loved my dad for some reason. I wasn't, however, close to any of the girls. Which really sucked. I was friends with a lot of people, though. Just not best friends. Although, there were two people who I was kind of best friends with. Luke and Owen. The carpenter's son and the blacksmith's grandson. Okay so maybe I'm toning it down a bit - or a lot. The three of us were best friends. They told me all of their girl troubles and I gladly helped. Not that they'd ever really listen to what I had to say about my problems.

Not that that mattered. What was I supposed to expect? They were guys after all. Can't ya tell I was raised by a single mother?

"Akari!" I turned to see who had called my name. It was Gill, the mayor's son. One of the few people who could make me angry just at the thought of them. He was so stuck up! He thought he was all that.

"Yes?" I replied, flatly.

He rolled his eyes, I think it was a mutual hatred. "Do you know if your father paid that bill yet?" My father had bought a plot of crop land from Mayor Hamilton. Instead of paying in full my father had a seasonal payment schedule. After all, who could afford that plot of land all at once? It wasn't even that large and it was 150 000G! 150 000G! I mean, who can afford that? My dad's farm is going great - really great, actually - and even he can't. This Hamilton was such a fraud.

"Actually," I retorted coldly. "I'm on my way to pay it right now. Some people actually have responsibilities Gill and can't come pay a bill at the crack of dawn."

He scoffed. "Well, you better pay it soon, today's the due date." He walked off in the other direction all high and mighty. He thought he'd won that. Yeah right! He had issues. It was only 9:00 and he expected it to be paid? I did have other responsibilities - I did the chickens and the about half of the crops on the smaller part of land. My dad luckily didn't make me do too much. But anyway. I doubted he had that many responsibilities. And even if he did, he didn't have to act like a god. He wasn't the harvest Goddess. Although, he probably fit the gender.

I continued across the bridge to town hall. When I got their I paid Hamilton the money and left. i didn't like the mayor or his family. Namely son. And that was about all I had to do. Maybe I'd ask Owen if he wanted to go mining. Nothing wrong with having fun and making money.

I got into the mine cart that Bo had fixed. Man, I hated these things. Luckily, once I got into Garmon District. Owen was right outside the blacksmiths. "Hey," I said, jogging over to him. "Whatcha doin'?"

He laughed at my bubbliness. "What do you want now?"

I smiled. He knew me too well. "Wanna go mining?"

He nodded, grinning. "Thought you'd never ask. Let's go."

We decided to go to the Upper Garmon Mine. I said I needed the exercise, going up the stairs. He snorted. I felt kind of awkward as I felt his stare appraise my body. I knew he was just doing that to prove my statement wrong but still. I guess it was a bad choice this morning to wear short shorts, a tight tank top and my running shoes. I glanced over, he was still looking at me. I knew I was lucky enough to have a good body. My figure was slender, toned and muscular. And although I was really skinny, my chest size was a pretty good size. I looked over at him, my chocolate eyes shining. Flipping my shoulder length brown hair over my shoulder, I giggled. "I would really appreciate it if you would stop checking me out."

He laughed it off but I could see his face starting to flush until it was almost the color of his hair. The rest of the day went by smoothly, though. We mined, I got a lot of ores. He got a lot more. Of course, his were better quality. But it was the fun that counted, right? Once we exited the mine, I placed all my ores in the shipment bin. I stared at Owen, jaw dropped, when he did the same.

"What are you doing?" I exclaimed.

He laughed at my outburst then shrugged. "I don't need them and neither does Grandpa. Just think of it as a birthday gift."

I glared at him. "My birthday was two weeks ago and you got me a present then, too. Why don't you sell them? Make some money for yourself."

"I don't need it."

Our little dispute went on for a bit. Then, suddenly, Luke came bursting across the bridge that connected Garmon Mine District to my dad's farmland. He stopped abruptly infront of us; if he would have went any further he would have knocked me right down. But neither of us could be mad at him. He was grinning ear to ear. This wasn't unusual for Luke, but this grin seemed different.

"What's the idea?" I asked. "You do know if you kill us you have no friends."

"Maybe not." He smiled. I wasn't sure if he got the joke and just ignored it or if he just hadn't understood."But I would have a girlfriend!"

I gaped at him. I could feel my heart plummit into my stomach at his words. Why? I don't know, probably just the shock. I hope. After all it was shocking that Luke had a date. Sure he was handsome, had a good sense of humor and was a nice guy, but.... He was so dense. A girl would pretty much have to spell it out for him - using small words of course - so he would get it. And there was only one girl I knew who would do that.

"Who?" I heard Owen ask after giving Luke a high five. How was he so calm? Was I the only one worried?

"Selena," he told us proudly.

I tried not to scoff. How was that a good thing? "Nice one," Owen congratulated.

Apparently. Apparently I was the only one concerned.

"Gotta go guys. See ya later!" Luke rushed over to his house.

"Wow," Owen said, now more shocked and looking a little more like how I felt.

"Selena?" I blurted. "You've got to be kidding me!" Sure, she was hot, but far from a good person. "She's a total brat! She thinks she's so pretty and so talented and so special. That's just ridiculous."

"Someone's jealous," Owen teased.

I wanted to slap him in the face. okay, so I actaully did. Sue me!

"Gosh, Kar, I was kidding!"

"Well, stop. This is serious. Luke's way too nice for her. She's spoiled and mean and, and...."

"She'll probably seduce him into doing things Luke, of all people, shouldn't do?"

I nodded. "What was he thinking?"

"Well, he does like her. A lot."

"He does?" I blurted. Explains why he was so excited. "He never told me!"

"He told you his problem. He just didn't say her name. Probably 'cause you'd react like this."

"Oh," was all I said. I was really hurt. Luke had told Owen and not me! Sure, he and Owen had known each other longer, but still!

"And you are the one that said to say yes if she asked him."

" 'Cause he wanted to!"

"Exactly." Owen smiled sympatheticly. "This is about him. Not you, not me. Him and Selena. If they like each other, we should be happy."

"I gave you that speech last month,"I said flatly.

"I know. Good time to use it, eh?"

I sighed. "Whatever."

A/N: Sorry, that it kinda keep reading(When I update :P). Itll get better. R&R please!!